Jazz
With the galvanic addition of Joshua Redman, The Bad Plus is now made up of four intense virtuosos.
Read Moretrumpeter–composer Mark Harvey’s imaginative conducting made the pieces work together in fascinating ways.
Read MoreFrom noon to six on Saturday, September 26, Boston’s premier outdoor jazz event, the Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival, returns to Boston’s South End for a fifteenth year.
Read MoreMiles Davis at Newport, 1955-1975 has its drawbacks, but I wouldn’t want to be without this four-disc collection
Read MoreJoey Alexander is more than a mere prodigy; he is closer to a freak of nature, a fully formed jazz virtuoso.
Read MoreScott Robinson brings the spirit of pulp fiction, and a love of outer space, to the Newport Jazz Festival.
Read MoreSo there was the Ornette Coleman Quartet, leading off the final side of vinyl with a cut that changed my life, “Lonely Woman.”
Read MoreThe great mistake we make as listeners or viewers is passivity. Music deserves and needs our active involvement.
Read MoreGunther Schuller dove into jazz with passionate hunger, in the process dispelling cultural, class, and racial prejudices.
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Arts Remembrance: Guitarist Garrison Fewell — The Master of Searching for Something More
An inspiring man as well as a brilliant musician, Garrison Fewell had the courage to turn away from the darkness and to embrace the light.
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